The American bass master takes UK dubstep and chucks it back at us louder and heavier than ever

Northern accents. Irony. Guinness. Some things don’t translate across the pond. Given the British sensibility that resonates from grime and dubstep – that which speaks of high-rise estates and history written in old rave flyers – maybe at one point in time these genres would be included in that list too. Not any more, thanks to Philadelphia’s Starkey.

His 2008 debut ‘Ephemeral Exhibits’ was an outsider’s take on our inner-city more

Ear Drums and Black Holes

While many are suspicious of producers who assign their music its own genre tag - ‘street bass’ in this instance - it does make a certain sense for a dude who seems to be cribbing from dubstep, last-decade electronica, grime, G-funk, r&b and Baltimore club, without fitting into any of them for more than a minute or two. From Philadelphia, where him and his pals have spent the last six years or so throwing parties to showcase genres that would more

Saddle up for an intergalactic sonic journey, moving both air and brain-cells.